Steven Spielberg
American filmmaker (born 1946)
- Entries
- 10
- On the record
- 0
- Stories
- 2
- Latest entry
- 2023
The record
Steven Spielberg's own record is mostly honors and institutions rather than court cases; the stories already in this file concern his 1989 divorce from Amy Irving and a settlement figure she later disputed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, then Best Picture and Best Director for Schindler's List in 1994, and Best Director again for Saving Private Ryan in 1999.
In 1994 he founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors. It moved from Universal Studios to the University of Southern California in January 2006 and, as the USC Shoah Foundation, says it now holds 60,394 testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and other mass atrocities, which it calls the largest such collection in the world.
The American Film Institute made him its 23rd Life Achievement Award honoree in 1995. President Obama named him one of 17 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients on November 16, 2015, in a citation that noted his three Academy Awards, his co-founding of DreamWorks Studios and the Shoah Foundation. The Golden Globes credit him with 20 nominations and best director wins for Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and, in 2023, The Fabelmans.
Roles and honours on the record
- 1994 Director and producer, Schindler's List, winner of Best Picture and Directing at the 66th Academy Awards source
- 1994 Founder, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation source
- as of 2015 Co-founder, DreamWorks Studios, per the White House Medal of Freedom citation source
Every entry, newest first
- Reported
Amy Irving declined to disclose her settlement and called the widely quoted $100 million figure 'a lie', per the Chicago Tribune. Divorce settlement fights: Hamm's returned check, Irving's 'lie'
- Reported
New York Daily News reported Amy Irving received a $100 million divorce settlement. Most expensive divorces: Wildenstein's $2.5B tops our ranking
Stories in this file
Money ยท ๐ Most expensive divorces: Wildenstein's $2.5B tops our ranking
Four of the seven carry a dollar figure on record. The other three rank on what was filed, frozen or reported. ๐
Money ยท ๐ธ Divorce settlement fights: Hamm's returned check, Irving's 'lie'
Sue Ann Arnall sent back a ~$975M check, Amy Irving called her $100M figure 'a lie', Rybolovlev's accounts froze. Six fights over the money. ๐
The record, entry by entry
- 1987-03-30 Official He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 59th Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 59th Academy Awards
- 1994 Official He founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors. USC Shoah Foundation, about page
- 1994-03-21 Official Schindler's List won Best Picture, with Spielberg among its producers, and he won Directing at the 66th Academy Awards. The film won seven of its 12 nominations. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 66th Academy Awards
- 1995 Official The American Film Institute named him its 23rd Life Achievement Award honoree. American Film Institute, Life Achievement Award page
- 1999-03-21 Official He won Directing for Saving Private Ryan at the 71st Academy Awards. The film, which he also produced, won five of its 11 nominations; Best Picture went to Shakespeare in Love. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 71st Academy Awards
- 2006-01 Official The Shoah Foundation moved from Universal Studios to the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. USC Shoah Foundation, about page
- 2015-11-16 Official President Obama named him one of 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to be presented at the White House on November 24. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary release
- 2023 Official He won the Golden Globe for best director, motion picture, for The Fabelmans, after earlier wins in the category for Schindler's List in 1994 and Saving Private Ryan in 1999. Golden Globes, Steven Spielberg nominations and wins
Documents
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 66th Academy Awards (1994)
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 71st Academy Awards (1999)
- The White House, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients (Nov. 16, 2015)
- USC Shoah Foundation, about page
- Golden Globes, Steven Spielberg nominations and wins